May 22, 2012, 9:32 pm
The re-publication of this invaluable tome by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar is a cause for celebration among editors and filmmakers. First published in 1953, the English version of the book was reprinted 13 times and was translated into Spanish, Czech, Polish and Russian. In 1968, Reisz decided to update the book by adding a fourth section...

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February 5, 2019, 10:42 am
This year we had a fantastic voter turn out in the 2018 Toolfarm Top 10 Plug-in Awards. These are the top plug-ins and products of 2018 as voted by our Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, CINEMA 4D, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, and DaVinci Resolve Users!

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February 4, 2019, 11:54 am
This fun blur from the Cycore Effects that come bundled with Adobe After Effects. It looks at a second layer as a map to determine how much to blur an image by, and in what direction. The results are often surrealistic:

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February 2, 2019, 5:29 pm
Last night saw an under the radar precursor give out its prizes, which in turn may have shifted one of the Oscar categories. Yes, Friday evening saw the American Cinema Editors give out their annual ACE Eddie awards. This yearly event usually can clue us in to what the frontrunners for Best Film Editing at the Academy Awards are. That may well be the case again here, though if that’s true, the Academy and its voters are going to be making an usual choice. They already did in terms of their nominees in the category though, so I suppose this is just par for the course…

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February 2, 2019, 5:29 pm
Yorgos Mavropsaridis just won the ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy. He was also nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for the film. He was nominated for an ACE Eddie in 2017 for The Lobster. Other films include Killing of the Sacred Deer, The Enemy Within, Dogtooth and numerous Greek films.